A research review favors migration between 20,000 and 14,000 years ago for ancestors of most living Indigenous Americans.

Modern archaeological excavations and scientific testing continue to reshape our understanding of ancient history, revealing ...

We often read about great civilizations, lost cities, and ancient marvels in history books. But let’s be honest, sometimes words on a page don’t quite capture the magic. What really brings the past ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

The work of archeologists involves a daunting task: to determine the places and ways in which our ancient human ancestors lived based on an extremely limited amount of information. While historians ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from archaeological human remains more than two millennia old. The study, led by the ...

The Indigenous African Hadza and South American Tsimane share gut microorganisms that shed light on human dispersals and ...

Archaeologists suspect people may have opened the skull to eat the brain, but the newly recovered animal's age and the ...

Natural selection is usually a term reserved for science textbooks and not for conversations about contemporary humans. For decades, scientists believed that human evolution had largely slowed to a ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...